On July 25, Holistic Nutritionist and Cookbook Author Meredith McCarty will speak on Healing Cuisine Updates. Today eating well means eating a plant-based whole foods diet, one that includes the foods that are attracting international attention for both the prevention of and recovery from disease. Healing cuisines are the traditional culinary practices of the longest-lived cultures on the planet. Modern macrobiotic dietary recommendations integrate the present with the past by focusing on the foods that have always supplied humanity with the greatest nutritional support, prepared in ways that fit American lifestyles today.
In addition to a show and tell of healing foods and how to use them, Meredith will cover the latest scientific information from groups such as the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and MDs such as Andrew Weil and John McDougall, and will compare the 2005 USDA Food Pyramid with the cutting-edge Healing Foods Pyramid from the University of Michigan's Integrative Medicine Department.
As a holistic nutritionist (certified Diet Counselor and Nutrition Educator), Meredith has helped hundreds of people get their lives back by turning poor habits into healthy choices. Meredith created Healing Cuisine in 1995 as a way to integrate her 30 years of teaching experience with her consulting services and lectures. She has written three cookbooks, including the award-winning Sweet and Natural, and produced a bread making video. She was an Associate Editor of Natural Health magazine, and Co-Director of The Center of Macrobiotics in Eureka for 20 years
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